CONVICTED. Edwin P. Wilson, 55, former CIA agent currently serving 32 years for shipping arms to Libya; of trying to arrange from prison the murder of two federal prosecutors, a business associate and five Government witnesses who participated in the trial that led to his incarceration; in New York City. Wilson now faces up to 152 more years for the attempted murders and other related convictions.

HOSPITALIZED. Connie Francis, 44, singer (Where the Boys Are) who suffered a breakdown and became a recluse for seven years after she was raped in 1974; in a psychiatric hospital; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Francis was involuntarily committed in September by her father, George Franconero, who claimed that she has an "irrational" fear of crime, is a danger to herself and others and is spending her money "foolishly." Her lawyers are fighting the commitment. Last summer Franconero had his daughter placed in a Dallas psychiatric ward; after she got out on a habeas corpus writ, Francis said that her father wanted her "under his thumb."

DIED. Maurice Bishop, 39, Marxist Prime Minister of the Caribbean island of Grenada; in a military execution; in the capital, St. George's (see WORLD).

DIED. George Liberace, 71, violinist and bandleader who played the silent straight man to his considerably louder younger brother, Liberace, in concerts and on the entertainer's 1950s television shows; of heart disease complicated by a chronic blood disorder; in Las Vegas.

DIED. Raymond Aron, 78, maverick conservative French intellectual whose current bestseller, Memoirs: 50 Years of Political Reflection, chronicles his experiences as one of France's leading journalists and political theorists; of a heart attack; in Paris. A prominent figure in the Free French movement during World War II, Aron wrote influential columns for the

Paris daily newspaper Le Figaro (1947-77) and the weekly newsmagazine L'Express (1977-83) while teaching the social sciences at various universities, including the Sorbonne. A relentlessly independent thinker, he incurred the wrath of the left-wing intelligentsia with books like The Opium of the Intellectuals (1955), in which he attacked French Marxism. Though he was a committed anti-Communist and exponent of Western values, Aron lately had bouts of pessimism about the West's political will, saying that "all the causes I fought for have been put in question just when people accept that in most of my combats I was not wrong."

DIED. Peter Seitz, 78, arbitrator whose 1975 decision in the contract disputes of Baseball Pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally led to the free-agent system that revolutionized the sport, giving players unprecedented negotiating power; of a heart attack; in New York City. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.